Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it and wiser than the one read more

Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it and wiser than the one that comes after it.

It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.

It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.

All history is but the lengthened shadow of a great man.

All history is but the lengthened shadow of a great man.

What want these outlaws conquerors should have
But History's purchased page to call them great?

What want these outlaws conquerors should have
But History's purchased page to call them great?

History is the science of things which are not repeated.

History is the science of things which are not repeated.

I'm the only person of distinction who has ever had a depression named for him.

I'm the only person of distinction who has ever had a depression named for him.

The historian sees backward. In the end he also believes backward.

The historian sees backward. In the end he also believes backward.

History is fond of her grandchildren, for it offers them the marrow of the bones, which the previous generation had read more

History is fond of her grandchildren, for it offers them the marrow of the bones, which the previous generation had hurt its hands in breaking.

History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten.

History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten.